• Tennis.Nadal opens the course with a comfortable win against Djere

Rafa Nadal

will face in the

second round of the

Australia Open

with

Michael mmoh

, an American tennis player with roots in five continents.

He was born in

Riyad

, Saudi Arabia, where his Nigerian-born father was captain of the

Davis Cup team

.

At age 13,

Nick Bollettieri tied

him up and took him to Florida.

And his

mother, Irish

, moved to

Melbourne

in 2016

, where now her son, who also has Australian citizenship, plays as if he were at home.

Pure globalization.

Mmoh his name is Michael because he couldn't be called something else.

What else was his father, who is also a basketball fan and finished his education in Raleigh, North Carolina, going to give a son who was born in 1998, the top

of Jordan's Chicago Bulls

.

This Michael owes his name to that other.

The little boy also liked basketball but at the age of seven he decided on tennis, like his father.

Tony Mmoh

became number 105 in the world and represented his country at the 1988 Olympics, where he lost in the second round.

From a young age, Michael used his height (1.88) to stand out on the junior circuit.

His victory in the

Orange Bowl

in Florida at the age of 12 opened the doors to the prestigious IMG Academy in Bollettieri.

His agility on the court has drawn comparisons with

Gael Monfils

, but the violence of his hitting reveals the influence of his great idol,

Andy Roddick

.

That powerful service has already been suffered by

Roberto Bautista

, who was surprised three years ago at the

Masters 1000 in Miami

.

The Castellón, who was then number 15 in the world, is still the biggest piece that Mmoh has collected in his career, and his passport to the highest ranking: it was the first and only time that he has entered the top 100.

Michael Mmoh has

five challenger category titles

on his record

, where he also surpassed an already veteran

Marcel Granollers

, but has yet to break the ATP circuit, where he has only 10 victories in 30 games.

This is his second participation in the Australian Open, where a year ago he fell precisely at the hands of Bautista.

Revenge has these things.

Mmoh,

number 177 in the world

, returned to the final table after surpassing the three rounds of the previous one and reaches the second round of the Australian Open for the first time through the big door.

The American came back twice to Viktor Troicki, the first in the fourth set, when the Serbian got to serve to tie the game, and the second in the fifth, where he was 4-0 down.

Five sets and more than four hours of play to book an appointment with Rafa Nadal.

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